GENERAL KNOWLEDGE CROSSWORD
Play our accumulator game! Every day this week, solve the crossword to find the letter in the pink circle. On Friday, we’ll provide instructions to submit your five-letter word for your chance to win a luxury Cross pen. UK residents aged 18+, excl NI. Terms apply. Entries cost 50p
ACROSS
1 Official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury in London (7,6) 8 ____ Brothers, U.S. family comedy troupe whose youngest member had the stage name Zeppo (4) 9 ____ daisy, autumn-flowering aster with deep violet-blue flowers (10) 10 Militant nationalist movement who resisted British rule in 1950s Kenya (3,3) 11 Any material made from multiple sheets bonded together (8) 12 One who has a morbid fear of foreigners (9) 14 Colloquial term for a prison (4) 15 Flat thick rubber disc used instead of a ball in ice hockey (4) 16 Insect with a long, slender body, large eyes and two pairs of wings noted for its strong, swift flight (9) 20 The second initial in the name of the global body founded in 1944, the IMF, stands for this word (8) 21 William of ___ , byname of King William III, who acceded to the throne in 1689 jointly with Queen Mary II (6) 23 A sudden, overwhelming military attack that is German for ‘lightning war’ (10) 24 ___ the Red, Norse explorer who founded the first European settlement on Greenland (4) 25 Japanese video game released in 1978 (5,8)
DOWN
1 The escape of water or other fluid from a hole in a vessel (7) 2 Expression of a general truth or principle (5) 3 Town and resort on the southeast coast of Devon (7) 4 Character created by U.S. writer Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (11,4) 5 Devices that warn of danger (6) 6 U.S. national cemetery near Washington DC where JFK is buried (9) 7 Someone who enforces the fulfilment of a promise or the collection of a due (7) 13 A group of instrumentalists performing concert music (9) 15 Domestic dogs with a single dense coat of curled hair (7) 17 ____ O’Keeffe, U.S. artist born in 1887 noted for her paintings of enlarged flowers (7) 18 Kenny, U.S. singer/ songwriter noted for Footloose (7) 19 The ropes and rigging of a ship, particularly that used to load and unload cargo (6) 22 English singer/songwriter whose first UK No 1 hit was Someone Like You in 2011 (5)
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